Cultivator.



E. M. COLE GULTIVATOR.

APPLICATION IILED DEO.7.1912.

1,114,117, Patented Oct. 20, 1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE acon ootnlor CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE M. Conn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Charlotte, in the county of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Cultivator, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to Cultivators, its principal object being to provide a simple, practical, adjustable machine for planting two or more rows of grain or other seeds between the rows of growing crops at one tri Knother object is to provide a structure of this character havin novel means for adjustably supporting the beams carrying the soil engaging elements.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings z-Figure lis a side elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation, the central boot being partly removed. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the adjusting means employed in connection with the intermediate furrow opener, the cross beam of the structure being shown in section. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the adjusting wedge.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates connected longitudinal beams between whichis journaled a combined supporting and drive wheel 2. Extending between the front ends of these beams 1 is a clevis 5.

Rearwardly diverging handles 12 extend from the rear ends of the beams 1 and fix-v edly mounted on these beams at points in front of the handles 12 are cross beams 13 and 14, said cross beams beincg parallel and being provided with longitu inal series of apertures 15. Forwardly converging braces 16 connect the ends of the front beam 13 to the sides of the beams 1 near the front ends thereof and extending under the cross beams 13 and 14 are side strips .17 which are secured to the beams 13 and 14 by means of 1 back of the wheel 2 and mounted to swing on this bolt is a central strip 76 which extends rearwardly and under the cross beam 14. An adjusting bolt 77 extends upwardly from the rear end portion of the strip 76 and projects through the beam 14, said bolt being engaged by a lever nut 7 8 whereby it can be readily tightened or loosened. A wedge 79 formed as shown at 80, may be inserted between beam 14 and central strip 76 so as to straddle the bolt 77. By then tightening the bolt, the wedge will, 0bviously, be held against displacement. It will be seen that by forcing the wedge 79 between strip 76 and beam 14, the said strip 76 can be adjusted downwardly. Secured to each of the strips 17 and 76 is a plow standard 81 carrying a furrow opener 82.

As the soil between the rows of crops is sometimes flat and very often concaved or depressed more or less in the center between the rows, it has been found desirable, in the present case, to make the middle opening plow adjustable upwardly and downwardly. The transverse adjustment of the plows of the present machine is also rendered desirable in view of the fact that the distance between rows varies.

It is designed to arrange the intermediate furrow opener some distance back of. the

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side furrow openers. This arrangement altending upwardly from the strip and wedge straddling the bolt and interposed between the strip and cross beam, and -means engaging the bolt and the cross bean-1 for binding the wedge between said cross beam and strip.

central beams, and a pair of spaced transverse beams supported thereby, of side strips connecting the end portions of the transverse beams and adjustable toward and from each other, a strip stpported between and adjustable upwardly and downwardly rela tive to the central beams, and furrow openers carried by the respective strips.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signa- 2. The combination with wheel supported ture in the presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE MACON COLE. Witnesses H. F. WOLFE, E. A. BROOKS.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents,

Washington, D. O. 

